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Disable AD synchronization for a single user in Microsoft Entra ID
This guide describes how to disable Active Directory synchronization for a single user by transferring the user's Source of Authority to Microsoft Entra ID. This allows you to manage individual users from the cloud while keeping Entra Connect Sync enabled for the rest of your organization.
Upload multiple Github repositories into a single Azure Static Web App
In the past few weeks, I have been busy on scaling up my tools and the backend hosting of the tools. For the last year, I used multiple Static Web Apps on Azure for this, but this took a lot of time administering and creating them....
Remove Microsoft Print to PDF and OneNote printers script
In this guide, I will show you how to delete the printers using a PowerShell script. This is compatible with Microsoft Intune and Group Policy and can be used on physical devices, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
Automatically start Windows App at startup
In some cases we want to automatically start the Windows App for connections to AVD and Windows 365 at startup. We can achieve this through different ways which I will describe in this post.
Use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with PowerShell
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a built-in antivirus and security solution that helps protect your Windows devices. Because we want as less overhead as possible at certain moments, I though of using Defender with PowerShell. Using PowerShell, you can manage Defender by checking its status, running...
Azure Virtual Desktop FSLogix and Native Kerberos authentication
On this page I will describe how I built an environment with a pooled Azure Virtual Desktop hostpool with FSLogix and using the Entra Kerberos option for authentication. This new authentication option eliminates the unsafe need of storing the storage key in hosts' registry like we...
FSLogix and maximum Azure Files security
When using Azure Files and Windows 11 as operating system for Azure Virtual Desktop, we can leverage the highest SMB encryption/security available at the moment, which is AES-256. While we can change this pretty easily, the connection to the storage account will not work anymore by...
Deploy Google Chrome Single Sign On with Intune
When deploying Google Chrome with Microsoft Intune, users still have to manually login with their credentials into Microsoft Online websites. Microsoft Edge has built-in Single Sign On (SSO) for users who already logged in with their Microsoft account to their computer. However, there is a Chrome...
Disable users' self service license trials
One day I came across an option in Microsoft 365 to disable the users' self service trials. You must have seen it happening in your tenants, users with free licenses for Power Automate, Teams or Power BI. I will show you how to disable those and...
ARM templates and Azure VM + Script deployment
In Azure we can deploy ARM templates (+ script afterwards) to deploy resources on a big scale. This is like an easier version Terraform and Bicep, but without the great need to test every change and to learn a whole new language and convention. Also with...